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Paul Graham – What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?
Paul Graham suggests that, when we find a task that entertains us to the point that we are eager to do it, and when people around us doesn’t seem to approach that same task with the same enthusiasm, then we have found a clue. It’s a clue that points towards a direction that could very well […]
Micron Technology laying off 419 employees in Italy
March 7, 2014
Micron is a healthy and growing company. During last quarter it had 4 billions of revenues, more than doubling last year results, and they’re in good shape with 300 millions of net income. Micron is laying off 419 employees in Italy. It started a “procedure of mass lay-off” that, if it’s not stopped before April, […]
Interesting upcoming courses on Coursera
March 2, 2013
The online “university” coursera.org organizes its courses with limited time frame, to give the students a sense of urgency to complete the studies. These courses, which are relevant to the content of my blog, are about to start: VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout; start date: 2013-03-04 Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software; start date: 2013-03-04 Information Security […]
Getting Things Done: David Allen talk at TEDx
November 2, 2012
Getting Things Done, commonly known as GTD, is a method created by David Allen for dealing with stuff in your life; I already wrote about its benefits before. He recently gave this talk to a TED audience about its way of working. He exposes many deep concepts and uses a peculiar jargon, so if someone […]
Nomads Marocco project at LinuxDay
October 25, 2011
Sunday I went to a LinuxDay 2011 event organized near my city. There were presentation from the world of academics (Polytechnics of Turin and Milan) and the industry (Google, Canonical, …), but one talk was different from the others, in the sense that it was less technical and more human. A small girl approached the […]
Goodnight Steve
October 6, 2011
The world just lost a leader and a dreamer, a rare visionary with the feet on the ground.
Blog stats for 2010
January 2, 2011
[Generated automatically from wordpress.com] The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 89,000 times in 2010. If it […]
Getting Things Done
May 27, 2010
GTD (Getting Things Done) is a system created by David Allen to manage work. After reading the book and starting to implement the system, I can say I am impressed and I’d wholeheartedly suggest anyone to (at least try to) adopt it. Here is an introductory video of David lecturing at Google: David Allen: Getting […]
Memento code comments
January 25, 2010
Code comments are equal to flossing: you need to floss regularly or else… But how should a developer approach writing comments? As a personal technique I associate code comments with memento. What does memento mean? Memento is the Latin imperative “Remember!” A memento is an object that serves the purpose to let us not forget […]
Free relax in an open plan office
October 19, 2009
Tips to relax at the office using the power of nature sounds.
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Freedom Embedded 
January 17, 2015
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